Re: FC-3 duplicate rpms

From: don fisher (dfisher_at_as.arizona.edu)
Date: 03/05/05

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    Alexander,

    Thanks. It is an X86_64 system. I was led to the problem when I
    received an incomputable libraries error message on libGL and libXt.
    Is there a method to know when one is linking to the 32 bit or 64 bit
    libs?

    Thanks
    don

    Alexander Dalloz wrote:
    > Am Sa, den 05.03.2005 schrieb don fisher um 18:46:
    >
    >
    >>I have a FC-3 system that I recently instilled. I also ran up2date
    >>which installed more than 350 updates. When I do an rpm -qa | sort, I
    >>find that there are many RPMs listed twice. I tried rebuilding the
    >>database, even an --initdb but the situation persists.
    >>
    >>Is this a operational problem, or just a sloppy data base? Is there
    >>any way to "clean up" the system, short of a reinstall. Since I
    >>performed the install recently I am not confident that a repeat would
    >>produce different results.
    >>
    >>don
    >
    >
    > You have an x86_64 FC3 on a 64bit system? Then these double listed RPMs
    > a normal. Run i.e.
    >
    > rpm -qa --qf "%{name} %{version} - %{arch}\n" | sort
    >
    > and you would see both i386 and x86_64 packages for the doubles.
    >
    > If you have no 64bit FC3 then please provide us with a few examples of
    > twice listed RPMs.
    >
    > Alexander
    >
    >
    > 

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